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Here is a sampling of some of the possibilities.</p> <ul class="minitoc"> <li> <a href="#Drop-in+JVM">Drop-in JVM</a> </li> <li> <a href="#Use+Java+libraries+in+your+.NET+applications">Use Java libraries in your .NET applications</a> </li> <li> <a href="#Develop+.NET+applications+in+Java">Develop .NET applications in Java</a> </li> </ul> <a name="N1000F"></a><a name="Drop-in+JVM"></a> <h3>Drop-in JVM</h3> <div style="margin-left: 0 ; border: 2px"> <p>The <a href="userguide/ikvm.html">ikvm application</a> included with the distribution is a .NET implementation of a Java Virtual Machine. In many cases, you can use it as a drop-in replacement for java. For example, instead of typing</p> <div class="pre"> <span class="codefrag"> java -jar myapp.jar</span> </div> <p>to run an application, you can type</p> <div class="pre"> <span class="codefrag"> ikvm -jar myapp.jar</span> </div> </div> <a name="N1002C"></a><a name="Use+Java+libraries+in+your+.NET+applications"></a> <h3>Use Java libraries in your .NET applications</h3> <div style="margin-left: 0 ; border: 2px"> <p>IKVM.NET includes <a href="userguide/ikvmc.html">ikvmc</a>, a Java bytecode to .NET IL translator. If you have a Java library that you would like to use in a .NET application, run <span class="codefrag">ikvmc -target:library mylib.jar</span> to create mylib.dll. </p> <p>For example, the Apache FOP project is an open source XSL-FO processor written in Java that is widely used to generate PDF documents from XML source. With IKVM.NET technology, Apache FOP can be used by any .NET application.</p> </div> <a name="N10040"></a><a name="Develop+.NET+applications+in+Java"></a> <h3>Develop .NET applications in Java</h3> <div style="margin-left: 0 ; border: 2px"> <p>IKVM provides a way for you to develop .NET applications in Java. Although IKVM.NET does not include a Java compiler for .NET, you can use any Java compiler to compile Java source code to JVM bytecode, then use <span class="codefrag">ikvmc -target:exe myapp.jar</span> to produce a .NET executable. You can even use .NET API's in your Java code using the included <a href="userguide/ikvmstub.html">ikvmstub</a> application. </p> </div> <div class="attribution"></div> </div> </td><td width="10"><img width="10" height="1" alt="" src="skin/images/spacer.gif" class="spacer"></td> </tr> <!--================= end Content==================--> </table> </td> </tr> </table> <!--================= end Menu, NavBar, Content ==================--> <!--================= start Footer ==================--> <table summary="footer" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%" border="0"> <tr> <td colspan="2" height="1" bgcolor="#4C6C8F"><img height="1" width="1" alt="" src="skin/images/spacer.gif" class="spacer"><a href="skin/images/label.gif"></a><a href="skin/images/page.gif"></a><a href="skin/images/chapter.gif"></a><a href="skin/images/chapter_open.gif"></a><a href="skin/images/current.gif"></a><a href="/favicon.ico"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" bgcolor="#CFDCED" class="copyright" align="center"><font size="2" face="Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif"> Send feedback about this page to <a href="mailto:webmaster@ikvm.net?subject=IKVM Website Feedback - Page uses.html">webmaster@ikvm.net</a> <br> Copyright © 2008 Jeroen Frijters All rights reserved.<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"><!-- document.write(" - "+"Last Published: " + document.lastModified); // --></script></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2" align="left" bgcolor="#CFDCED" class="logos"></td> </tr> </table> <!--================= end Footer ==================--> </body> </html>